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Venture Capital
• Impulse Space, a Redondo Beach, Calif.-based spacecraft maker, raised $300m in Series C funding. Linse Capital led, joined by DFJ Growth and insiders Valor Equity Partners, Founders Fund, Lux Capital, RTX Ventures, DCVC, Airbus Ventures, Spring Tide, First Principles Group, Balerion Space Ventures, Tamarack Global, and Trousdale Ventures. Go deeper
⚡Eavor, a Calgary, Alberta-based geothermal startup, says it has a financing commitment of up to C$138m from Canada Growth Fund. Go deeper
• Speedata, an Israeli chip startup, raised $44m in Series B funding from Walden Catalyst Ventures, 83North, Koch Disruptive Technologies, Pitango First, and Viola Ventures. Go deeper
• Dataplor, a Manhattan Beach, Calif.-based provider of global location intelligence, raised $20.5m in Series B funding. F-Prime led, joined by Spark Capital, FFVC, Acronym Venture Capital, Two Lanterns Venture Capital, APA Ventures, dara5, and Alumni Ventures. Go deeper
🚑 Canid, a New York pediatric vaccine management company, raised $10m in a Series A led by Telescope Partners with participation from FJ Labs, Brooklyn Bridge Ventures and SeedtoB. Go deeper
🚑 ArcheHealth, a Birmingham, Ala.-based provider of operational performance improvement tools for hospitals, raised $6.7m in seed funding from LRVHealth, Martin Ventures, and Texas Health Resources. Go deeper
🌎 Kumulus Water, a French atmospheric water generator developer, raised €3.1m in seed funding from Bpifrance, PlusVC, Khalys Venture, Flat6Labs and Spadel. Go deeper
⚡Swap Robotics, an Ontario, Canada-based solar robotics startup, has raised $3m from solar developer Silicon Ranch. Go deeper
Private equity
• Haveli Investments acquired Accommodations plus International, a Melville, N.Y.-based provider of accommodations and travel tech solutions. www.apiglobalsolutions.com
M&A
🚑 Agenus is selling its biologics CDMO business to Indian drugmaker Zydus Lifesciences for $75m upfront and potentially an additional $50m over the next three years. Go deeper
• Circana, a marketing research company, acquired NCSolutions, a joint venture between Nielsen and Catalina to measure advertising campaigns. Go deeper.
Public Offerings
• Ategrity Specialty, a New York-based provider of excess and surplus insurance to SMBs, set IPO terms to 6.7m shares at $14-$16. It would have a $706m fully diluted value, were it to price in the middle, and plans to list on the NYSE (ASIC). Go deeper
Fundraising
🌎 Energize Capital, a Chicago-based climate tech firm, closed a $430m third VC fund from investors including new LPs Capricorn, Reference Capital, Keeling Capital and return investors GE Vernova, Builders Vision and UBS. Go deeper
Odds & Ends
💊 Sanofi agreed to extend a licensing agreement with San Francisco-based Nurix Therapeutics for an inflammation drug, paying it an additional $15m. To date, Nurix has received $127m under the Sanofi partnership and is eligible for an additional $465m if certain milestones are hit. Go deeper
💊 Regeneron is licensing a GLP-1 drug from Hansoh Pharmaceuticals in a deal worth about $2b. Go deeper
💊 Eli Lilly entered a collaboration and license agreement with Swedish biotech Camurus to develop incretin drug compounds for cardiometabolic health in a deal worth up to $870m. Go deeper
It's Personnel
• Sean Yajnik joined Macquarie Capital as head of digital infrastructure advisory. He previously was with TD Securities. Go deeper
⚡️ Rita Baranwal joined Radiant Industries, the El Segundo, Calif.-based microreactor developer, as its first chief nuclear officer. Baranwal was SVP of Westinghouse's AP300 SMR program. www.radiantnuclear.com
🌎 Kristal Kaye was appointed interim CEO of CarbonCure, the Canadian sustainable concrete production tech developer. Kaye was CFO; she succeeds Robert Niven, who is remaining on the board. Go deeper
